Veteran playwright Prabhakar Laxman Mayekar, passéd away today morning in Pune. He was taking treatment for cancer, for the past two years. Mayekar had written many types of famous Marathi plays, which included social, Humor, suspense, thrillers. He was conferred with ‘Ram Ganesh Gadkari’ award by Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natya Parishad.

Mr. Mayekar worked for Marathi amateur theatre, for almost a decade and during 80s, he got an opportunity as commercial play writer. During the early day of his career, he has successfully written a many popular one act plays. He has written plays for reputed banners like Chandralekha & Bhadrakali. Some of his famous plays were ‘Godi Gulabi’, ‘Aasu Ani Hasu’, ‘DIpsthamb’, ‘Pandgo Elo Re ba IIlo’ & ‘Raatrani’